Scientist Gets It Wrong!
rogersgeorge on October 4th, 2021
The previous post shows a local newspaper getting a tricky construction correct. Here’s a simpler version of the same trickiness, and the scientist got it wrong! (Well, okay, our scientist here might be an (ahem) professional journalist writing a science article.)
Each of the balls were found in the corners of two different compartments used to inter human remains in the burial chamber of the tomb, while other objects — especially pieces of pottery — were found along the compartment walls.
https://www.livescience.com/mysterious-stone-balls-scottish-tomb-orkney
“Each” is a singular, and the sentence has only three words between the subject and the verb, so the verb should be singular. But you know that, right?
Here’s a picture of one of the balls:
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